Opinions on system upgrade

[bozack]

Well its that time again, where I have the bug to get soemthing new....

I was thinking of a new motherboard (Abit SH6, getting tired of the Bh6) but wanted to put it to you guys first and see what kind of input I can get.

Currently I have a

Pentium 3 650
Abit BH6
128 megs Cas 3 pc100 Ram
ATI Radeon 32meg DDR
Soundblaster live XGamer

like I said before I was thinking of getting the motherboard but I am up for suggestions, I use the computer for everything but would like to gear it for a gaming system, the only game I play now is SOF, I was thinking of the mobo because I am tired of the quirkyness of the bh6, esp when it comes to USB, but any suggestions would be appreciated, thanks

 

[bozack]

oh I should have said I only want to upgrade one item, so either cpu or mobo, not both-have a big cc bill to pay off and want to do that before I spend "real" money, thanks

 

[AndyHui]

Definitely beef up the RAM to at least 256MB since it is so cheap at the moment.

 

[esung]

IMHO it's not worth the money just to get a MB replaced.. might as well save up more money and do a complete MB/CPU/RAM makeover. and your CPU is fast enough.

AndyHui is right.. more RAM will help the performance, and since it's so cheap now...

 

[BCYL]

Since RAM is so cheap, maybe you can do both! RAM and MB!

If you wanna gear it up for a gaming system, I suggest upgrading the video card... Radeon 32DDR is not really enough... you should have at least Radeon 64DDR (then it's comparable to the GeForce GTS 32DDR)...

 

[bozack]

I don't know I just got my video card and am guite happy with its performance, granted I am comming from a V3 2k before hand but the radeon seems to do quite well with both SOF and Quake 3.

The motherboard/Ram idea sounds like a good one and I might go with that, however that is double what I wanted to spend (mobo is 133 and the stick of ram that I want, Cas 2 133 is also 135)

oh well I will think it over thanks for the suggestions